Eiji Okada
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Birth Place
Japan
Born
June 13, 1920
Died
September 14, 1995
Biography
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This handsome Japanese leading man starred in several European and Hollywood productions. Okada is best known for his performances as an architect who has a brief affair with a French film actress in Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959), as an Asian revolutionary opposite Marlon Brando in "The Ugly American" (1963) and as an entomologist who discovers the "Woman in the Dunes" (19...
Filmography
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Harukana Jidai No Daidan O
(1995)
Traffic Jam
(1992)
Son
Hikarigoke
(1992)
Nishikawa
Sen No Rikyu
(1989)
Honkakubo
Haru No Kane
(1986)
Oginsaga
(1979)
Family & Companions
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Aiko Wasa
Wife
Actor. Co-founded theater company with Okada in the 1960s.
Biography
This handsome Japanese leading man starred in several European and Hollywood productions. Okada is best known for his performances as an architect who has a brief affair with a French film actress in Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959), as an Asian revolutionary opposite Marlon Brando in "The Ugly American" (1963) and as an entomologist who discovers the "Woman in the Dunes" (1964). He devoted most of his time in the 1970s to a theater company he founded with his wife Aiko Wasa.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Harukana Jidai No Daidan O
(1995)
Traffic Jam
(1992)
Son
Hikarigoke
(1992)
Nishikawa
Sen No Rikyu
(1989)
Honkakubo
Haru No Kane
(1986)
Oginsaga
(1979)
Espy
(1974)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
(1973)
Chimimorya
(1971)
Bigak
Vixen
(1970)
Nobuyuki Ishido
Bullet Wound
(1970)
Stormy Era
(1969)
Tunnel to the Sun
(1968)
Portrait of Chieko
(1968)
Tsubaki
She and He
(1967)
Eiichi
The Face of Another
(1967)
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
(1965)
The Scarlet Camellia
(1965)
Gen Maruu
Judo Saga
(1965)
The Assassin
(1964)
Woman in the Dunes
(1964)
Man
The Ugly American
(1963)
Deong
She and He
(1963)
Husband
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
(1960)
Lui
Mother
(1952)
Life Events
1942
Served in Japanese army
1950
Feature film debut, "Until the Day We Meet Again"
1959
Breakthrough feature performance, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"
1963
Appeared opposite Marlon Brando in "The Ugly American"
1964
Starred in "Woman in the Dunes"
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Companions
Aiko Wasa
Wife
Actor. Co-founded theater company with Okada in the 1960s.
